TSA Nabs Suspected Al Queda Terrorist At O'Hare International Airport

I cannot view the video as they are banned at work, but I read a portion of that article. Correct me if I am wrong, but they searched a child, whos
leg is casted, that makes him a suspected terrorist and because he is in a wheelchair? Maybe I'm missing it here. I am sure the video would shed some
light but I can't view it.

Originally posted by SloAnPainful
I cannot view the video as they are banned at work, but I read a portion of that article. Correct me if I am wrong, but they searched a child, whos
leg is casted, that makes him a suspected terrorist and because he is in a wheelchair? Maybe I'm missing it here. I am sure the video would shed some
light but I can't view it.

I also think the TSA having to search/pat-down a child like this is not good. But, don't you posters offended by this not think for one second a
home grown terrorist that looks like most of us would hesitate to put a bomb on a kid to blow up a plane? I hate it that we have to go through the
search, but if it keeps just one airliner from being blown-up again - then so be it.

Originally posted by camus154
For the last time, the TSA pats down people at random.

Can you grasp that? Do you know what random is?

If it's a child that comes through at the next random number, then a child gets searched. If it's a man, then a man gets searched. If it's a 90
year old woman, then she gets searched.

There is no greater significance to who gets selected than that. For God's sake, quit looking at this story like, "OMG, a child in a wheelchair got
searched? The horror! The horror! TSA's like, OMG, so stupid!!"

Why so militant in your defense of the TSA's unconstitutional authority?
It seems the indoctrination has worked quite well with you.

Don't worry, they'll protect you from all the extremely elusive bad scary terrorists that are looking to blow up airplanes

Originally posted by paradox
Why so militant in your defense of the TSA's unconstitutional authority?
It seems the indoctrination has worked quite well with you.

Don't worry, they'll protect you from all the extremely elusive bad scary terrorists that are looking to blow up airplanes

There is absolutely NOTHING unconstitutional about their authority. If you don't want to submit to a pat down, then DON'T FLY.

Get it? TSA is not busting down your door making you submit to searches. They're not stopping you out on the streets to search you. This is nowhere
near the same thing as a police force searching you at whim, and if you think it is, then you don't comprehend constitutional rights in the
slightest.

And I'm so militant about it because I think we, as Americans, are whiners. I think we have overblown sense of entitlement that borders on
nauseating. I think what we really cherish more than anything is our "right" to be offended and made indignant. We just *love* to get worked up over
the dumbest of things and complain about how the government is bad, the corporations are bad, the "system" is bad, everyone's out to get us, and oh
by the way, can I get whipped cream on my latte?

Americans need to get over themselves and their personal liberties and get a sense of perspective for a change.

Originally posted by paradox
Why so militant in your defense of the TSA's unconstitutional authority?
It seems the indoctrination has worked quite well with you.

Don't worry, they'll protect you from all the extremely elusive bad scary terrorists that are looking to blow up airplanes

There is absolutely NOTHING unconstitutional about their authority. If you don't want to submit to a pat down, then DON'T FLY.

Get it? TSA is not busting down your door making you submit to searches. They're not stopping you out on the streets to search you. This is nowhere
near the same thing as a police force searching you at whim, and if you think it is, then you don't comprehend constitutional rights in the
slightest.

And I'm so militant about it because I think we, as Americans, are whiners. I think we have overblown sense of entitlement that borders on
nauseating. I think what we really cherish more than anything is our "right" to be offended and made indignant. We just *love* to get worked up over
the dumbest of things and complain about how the government is bad, the corporations are bad, the "system" is bad, everyone's out to get us, and oh
by the way, can I get whipped cream on my latte?

Americans need to get over themselves and their personal liberties and get a sense of perspective for a change.

Actually thats not entirely true..... Have you not heard about the TSA searches on Tennessee expressways?

Check the link below, it will give you a little more information... And sadly, this is only the start...

Actually, I hadn't heard of that. But I do thank you for the link and for raising my awareness on it.

I can't say I'm a fan of TSA any more than anyone else is. And I can't say I believe they're really that effective at what they're doing.

But the argument of efficacy and who's really making money off this is more important to me than any discussion of constitutional rights. Because
again, I think we overblow our personal liberties, as hard as that may be to hear coming from an American. It practically doesn't affect me if I have
to submit to a search at the airport or the train station, even if it would make an ACLU lawyer's skin crawl.

Now, if a TSA agent tried stopping me on the sidewalk or while I was driving my car, that would be an entirely different situation.

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